6.15 Virtue

Keywords: virtues, aesthetic, moral, ethical, ethics, intellectual, judgments, character, hume, virtue, experiences, judgment, reflective, dispositions, experience

Number of articles: 35
Weighted number of articles: 32.12877

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic virtue each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.5, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 4 in 1987, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.65: Raw number of articles in topic 15, virtue.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic virtue each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.46, and the median value is 0.17. It reaches a peak value of 2.48 in 1987, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.66: Weighted number of articles in topic 15, virtue.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic virtue each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.1%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 0.6% in 1987, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.67: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 15, virtue.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic virtue each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 2.7%, and the median value is 0.9%. It reaches a peak value of 51.6% in 1947, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.68: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 15, virtue.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Richard Werner, 1985, “Echical Realism Defended,” Ethics 95:292–6.
  2. Manuel Bilsky, 1951, “I. A. Richards on Belief,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 12:105–15.
  3. Harvey Siegel, 1984, “Empirical Psychology, Naturalized Epistemology, and First Philosophy,” Philosophy of Science 51:667–76.
  4. Jon Tresan, 2006, “De Dicto Internalist Cognitivism,” Noûs 40:143–65.
  5. Erik J. Wielenberg, 2010, “On the Evolutionary Debunking of Morality,” Ethics 120:441–64.
  6. Jason Baehr, 2006, “Character, Reliability and Virtue Epistemology,” The Philosophical Quarterly 56:193–212.
  7. Louis E. Loeb, 2001, “Integrating Hume’s Accounts of Belief and Justification,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63:279–303.
  8. Michael R. Depaul, 1987, “Two Conceptions of Coherence Methods in Ethics,” Mind 96:463–81.
  9. Michael R. Depaul, 1988, “Naivete and Corruption in Moral Inquiry,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 48:619–35.
  10. Thomas S. Blackburn, 1988, “On the Very Idea of a Formative Experience: Depaul’s Challenge to Coherence Theories in Ethics,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49:139–44.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Jason Baehr, 2006, “Character, Reliability and Virtue Epistemology,” The Philosophical Quarterly 56:193–212. (0.8972053)